Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1887-02-25
WALKED OVERHEARD.
A BRIDeE.KrEPER IN NaNsEH0HD
COUNTY DROWNED.
supposed to Have Been Aslesp-Teribly
Hurt In q saw.Mill Minor
Notes
Correspondents Of the Richmond DIspatob.l

NORFOLK, February "a, 1887.
Some time during last night negro
man named James Porter, the keeper
of the bridge over Benefits creek, in
Nansemond county, near the Norfolk
county line, walked overheard from the
bridge, and, falling in deep water was
drowned The body was found in the
creek this morning and an inquest held
by county magistrate. II il supposed
the man WIS walking in his sleep at the
time of the accident He haves a
family.
The Chesapeake, Norfolk and Caro-
lima Railway Company, which is to run
from Portsmouth to Charlotte, N. c.,
have petitioned the Council for the
right of way down one of the streets to
the waterfront and exemption from
taxes on their warehouses and shops
for ten years.
The Federal supervisors of election
were paid off yesterday by Marshal L.
W. Scott.
Mr.. Meyer Abram, of Rocky Mount,
n. c., and Miss Fannie Frankfurt, OF
this city, were united in marriage at
Montefore Hall last night, with bril-
liant festivities. Rev. j.. Emerson sol
emnized the nuptials, and this morning
the bridal couple went North.
The Baker Salvage Company was
awarded $1,000 yesterday for picking
up and towing into port the schooner
Fannie Brown, found off Body island
in distress.
The Grand Lodge of the Hebrew
Order of o. X. S. b., No. 3, which
embraces the district from Pennsyl-
vania TO Louisiana, viii hold its an
nual session i'll this city on Sunday
next, and continue three days.
Sportsmen are rapidly leaving the
club-houses on the Carolina sounds for
their homes, and the cunning season is
about closed, having been the best,
particularly for ducks, in many years.
BY direction of the State Auditor
Captain r. C.. Marshall, Common
wealth's attorney of the city of Ports
mouth. has commenced suits against the
County Court clerk of Norfolk county
and the Circuit-Court clerk of Norfolk
county for $3.50 each, damages for re-
fusing to make returns to the commits
sioner of revenue of the city of Ports
mouth, in whose district the clerks
offices are located. The Board of Su-
pervisors directed the clerks to refuse.
This morning the Finance Committee
of the City Council of Portsmouth and
a party of citizens left on the steamer
Ariel for Claremont and HicksfOrd to
inform themselves as to the status OF
the Atlantic and Danville railroad and
the sentiment of the people in Green's
vile regarding the management. The
opposition to the subscription Is strong.
Mr.. William Hart, superintendent at
Neely's saw-mill, at Franklin, on the
Seaboard road, was caught in the bands
running n circular saw yesterday and
carried around several times before
being relieved. He was terribly hurt
internally, from which modification is
feared,
Bishop Francis NJ. White, of this
Episcopal diocese, will be here next
Sunday to administer confirmation, and
will spend several days among the
churches of this section.
A Baltimore drummer rendered cOu-
pons for a State license yesterday, but
the commissioner refused to receive
them. Another drummer, from New
York, appeared with coupons, but soon
changed his mind and paid in cash for
a sample-merchant's license.
The Pocahontas-coal business at the
Lambert's Point piers is unusually
heavy just now, and from $500 to
1900 tons day are handled. The pros
pect for several months ahead is for
brisk business.
Between 5000 and 1000 bales of cot
ton are stored here, awaiting shipment
to Europe.
The immense grain-eleyator just
built at the Norfolk and Western depot
will be turned over by the contractor
the first of the month. Mr.. w. H.
Sanborn, who has had large expe
rience in elevators in Chicago and New
York, has been appointed superintend-
ent.
The schooner Raylies Wood, Captain
COOmbs, from Boston to Baltimore,
light, struck upon a wreck off Fenwich
Island, just north of the Delaware
Breakwater, yesterday morning. She
filed and rolled over and then sunk.
The crew were taken off 10y the schooner
II. w. Godfrey, bound for this port,
and reached here to-day. The wrecked
schooner was a large new vessel and
belonged in Taunton, Mass. The cap
tain is here awaiting instructions from
the owners.
The bark Energy, from Darien, Ga,
to Aberdeen, arrived i'll the Roads to-
day in distress and leaking badly. She
ran on Doboy bar, and leaked so badly
that her deck-load of logs bad to be
thrown overheard. The underwriters
agent went down this afternoon to hold
a survey.
The wreckers have recovered nearly
1900 oil-harrels from the wreck of the
German ship Elizabeth. @.